A car is bought every three minutes by someone using eBay on their mobile in the UK – totalling more than 175,000 vehicles sold every year – making motoring the third most popular mobile purchase.

Fashion is the top mobile purchase on eBay, with a pair of shoes snapped up every 15 seconds and a handbag sold every 30 seconds. Tech is the second most popluar purchase for mobile eBayers in the UK.

eBay has revealed that Birmingham is the top mobile shopping city in the UK, followed by South London, Sheffield, Nottingham and Belfast. The 21 per cent of cross-platform shoppers on eBay make up 44 per cent of total global sales, the company also said.

eBay forecast at the beginning of the year that the value of its mobile transactions in 2013 would be $20bn. It also revealed in July that it had seen 197m downloads to date worldwide.

Top 20 destinations

1. Birmingham
2. South London
3. Sheffield
4. Nottingham
5. Belfast
6. North London
7. Leicester
8. Peterborough
9. East London
10. Bristol
11. Newcastle
12. Manchester
13. Cardiff
14. Portsmouth
15. Doncaster
16. Coventry
17. Derby
18. Brighton
19. Reading
20. Chelmsford